Yeonmi
on the South Korean talk show “Now On My Way to Meet You,”
featuring North Korean defectors telling stories about their lives.
Originally
published on Jan
20, 2013http://tv.ichannela.com/meetnow

(Host):
“When other members on the show mentioned that they were eating
grass and starving, Yae-ju (Yeonmi) said, 'We didn’t have that kind
of situation in North Korea!'”

(Yeonmi's
mom): “Sometimes after filming, Yae-ju
(Yeonmi)
called me and asked, ‘Mom,
am I really North Korean?Because
I couldn’t understand what the other members on the show were
talking about.’”

“She
thought other members were totally lying” (about the hunger and
other hardships they witnessed and experienced)...

2:18
(Yeonmi) Just only what we knew was that if we are staying here, we
were going to die from (lack of) food… I
was the one who starved… I literally had to eat grass, dragonflies
and frozen potatoes.

Her
mother, too, was interrogated and thrown into jail. Yeonmi
and her sister, Eunmi were left to fend for themselves,at
the age of nine and 11, foraging on the mountainsides for grasses,
plants, frogs and even dragonflies to avoid starving to death.
"Everything I used to see, I ate them," she said.

Q:
Yeonmi saw her friend's mom publicly executed on the street or in a
stadium? At age 11 or 9? Due to SK/US dramas, US/SK film, or James
Bond?

Yeonmi
and her mother were taken to a detention center in Ulan Bator, the
capital of Mongolia, where Yeonmi
was forced
to remove all of her clothes every day for months.
“I
was a little girl and felt so ashamed...